Greetings from Burnley and Pendle Music Society! We hope you‘ve had an enjoyable summer and now, as the days get shorter, are looking forward to the pleasures of concert-going. We know how many of you enjoy string quartet recitals and were perhaps disappointed not to see one on last season's prospectus. We are making amends by starting the new season with the Gildas Quartet from Manchester. We continue in November with a rather unusual event; a duo called Trouvère Medieval Minstrels who sing and play on appropriate instruments music from the Middle Ages and remind us that 2015 is the 800th anniversary of the signing of Magna Carta. Not only do we have a string quartet - we also welcome a piano trio from Vienna and the season ends with the obligatory piano recital by the young Syrian pianist Riyad Nicolas.
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| Gildas String Quartet | Trouvère Medieval Minstrels | Vienna Mozart Trio | Riyad Nicolas |
| 2.30 pm, Sunday 4th October 2015, St. Peter's Church, Church Street, Burnley | |
| The Gildas String Quartet (Christopher Jones, violin; Gemma Sharples, violin; Kay Stephen, viola; Anna Menzies, cello) | |
| Haydn | String Quartet in D major, Op. 20 No. 4 |
| Mendelssohn | String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 13 |
| Ravel | String Quartet in F major |
| 2.30 pm, Sunday 8th November 2015, Higherford Methodist Church | |
| Trouvère Medieval Minstrels (Gill Page and Paul Leigh) | |
| Magna Melodia - Music from the time of Magna Carta | |
| All the music in this programme is from the century or so around the time of Magna Carta, and includes works by Bernart de Ventadorn and Richard the Lionheart himself, as well as many anonymous pieces. It‘s a musical journey with lute, harp, symphony, whistle and much else from France to the Mediterranean and back to England, exploring the wide extent of the Angevin world. | |
| 2.30 pm, Sunday 24th January 2016, St. Peter's Church, Church Street, Burnley | |
| The Vienna Mozart Trio (Irina Auner, piano; Daniel Auner, violin; Diethard Auner, cello) | |
| Mozart | Piano Trio No. 1 in B flat major, KV254 |
| Beethoven | Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor, Op. 1 No. 3 |
| Mendelssohn | Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 49 |
| 7.30 pm, Saturday 2nd April 2016, St. Peter's Church, Church Street, Burnley | |
| Riyad Nicolas (piano) | |
| J. S. Bach | Prelude and Fugue, Book 2, No. 1 |
| Beethoven | Sonata Op. 110 (!st movement) |
| Chopin | Polonaise Fantasie, Op. 61 |
| Chopin | 4 Études, Étude Op. 25 No. 11 |
| Liszt-Paganini | Étude No.6 in A minor |
| Scarlatti | Two sonatas in F minor and G major |
| Ravel | Gaspard de la nuit |